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,_it_has_emerged. "A delegation formed by representatives of a rightist Austrian party met with Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov (pictured), it has emerged.")
RSS Feed General News08. 02. 12. - 20:00
Kadyrov welcomes Austrian right-wingers
A delegation of representatives of a rightist Austrian party met with Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, it has emerged.
Freedom Party (FPÖ) officials confirmed a report by Die Presse today (Weds). The right-wingers said they gathered with Chechen authorities in Grozny to discuss immigration and asylum issues. The members of the Austrian opposition faction explained goal of their journey to Chechnya was to find an agreement about how refugees could be convinced of returning from Austria to their home country.
FPÖ Vienna whip Johann Gudenus – who was part of the delegation which also included Johannes Hübner – told Die Presse that his team and representatives of the Kadyrov administration agreed that the vast majority of Chechen asylum seekers were economic migrants. "We were able to convince ourselves that Kadyrov would not persecute them," he claimed.
Die Presse reports that the FPÖ officials agreed with the Chechen government about creating a cultural platform to support people’s integration in Austria. The planned organisation should also help encouraging people to return to Chechnya, the FPÖ said.
The delegation’s trip came to a surprise to political observers due to widespread xenophobic tendencies among its supporters and the general anti-immigration course of its far-right circles. Gudenus has been accused by anti-fascism groups and experts on Austria’s neo-Nazi scene of using encoded terms when speaking about immigration and crime issues to ensure the full support of right-wing extremists.
International non-government organisations (NGOs) suspect Kadyrov of having masterminded the murder of political opponents in Chechnya and abroad. The Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution is reportedly aware of 300 agents operating for the autocratic president. The group’s leader was deported last year, according to Die Presse. The squadron of secret agents in Austria are allegedly trying to intimidate refugees and members of the Chechen opposition abroad. Gudenus said the issue was not debated in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. A spokesman for the Chechen president rubbished the accusations of Austrian authorities as "fairytales".
Chechens have been strongly represented among asylum seekers for years. Overall, 11,000 people applied for political asylum in the European Union (EU) member state in 2010. Most of them came from Chechnya, Afghanistan and Kosovo. There are no data on how many applicants were allowed to settle in Austria since procedures often take years. NGOs criticise that asylum seekers are banned entering the labour market during this period. Around 15,800 applications for asylum were recorded by the Austrian interior ministry in 2009. Fewer than 22 per cent of refugees appealing for permanent allowance to stay in the country were allowed to do so.
News that Austrian right-wingers met with Kadyrov comes around half a year after three Chechens were sentenced to jail for killing Umar Israilov, a former bodyguard of the country’s controversial leader. The assassination of Israilov took place in Vienna in 2009. Investigators found out that Israilov was shot dead after having applied for asylum in Austria. He informed the European Court of Human Rights about having witnessed Kadyrov – who can trust on the sustainability of his ties with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin – participating in torturing sessions.
Israilov also accused the president of Chechnya of having ordered executions. Prosecutors said the murder of Israilov was "politically motivated". Juridical authorities in Russia ignored Austrian investigators’ appeal for advice and assistance in arresting other alleged backers and organisers of the crime, including Kadyrov and a high-ranking Chechen army officer.
Austrian Times
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mia wrote on 08. 02. 2012 from Wien about "Kadyrov welcomes Austrian..."
is there some gas, austria needs from the tiny separatist republic? because this is not an article for the first page, at least not for an austrian website, which pretends to use english to sell its stories. i`m sure mr Kadyrov will be a good, good boy with all those asylum seekers, when they will be send back to their country.
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